July 24, 2010

Me & Library Thing

I haven't plugged Library Thing in a while. Let me point out the amusing and mostly useless statistics the system keeps about my library:

  • Item: There are 256 different "series" to which my books belong (quotations because series is kind of free-form. Your books may become part of a series if some other Library Thing user thinks of his or her copies of those books as part of a series)
  • Item: There are 944 "places" mentioned in my books (again, free-form)
  • Item: 331 books I own have appeared on someone's good/challenged/influential/read before you die list (the American Library Association puts out a lot of lists, I notice)
  • Item: at the moment, I have 471 books first published in the 2000s and 471 books first published in the 1970s (an odd coincidence; I don't buy books based on their publication date)
If you haven't begun cataloging your books at Library Thing, you'll never learn these sorts of fascinating things about your library. That would be a shame.

Posted by Linkmeister at July 24, 2010 03:29 PM | TrackBack
Comments

I think I'll look into that. We have a LOT of books

Posted by: cassie-b at July 25, 2010 10:29 AM

If you're ever standing in a bookstore trying to remember whether you already own a copy of that book you're holding, it's a highly useful and potentially money-saving tool. You can check your book collection on the spot, because Library Thing has a mobile URL you can call up on your wireless device.

Posted by: Linkmeister at July 25, 2010 10:33 AM